2003 CHEVROLET CORVETTE — Complaint #750315
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE filed December 29, 2009
NHTSA complaint #750315 (ODI reference 10297453) concerns a 2003 CHEVROLET CORVETTE and was filed on December 29, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 24, 2009. The vehicle had 15,900 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:column locking:anti-theft device, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET CORVETTE cohort independently describe similar steering:column locking:anti-theft device failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2003 CHEVROLET CORVETTE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2003 CORVETTE MANUAL TRANS. I HAD THE WORK DONE FOR THE STEERING WHEEL LOCK RECALL PROGRAM #04V060000 BACK IN 2006. ON DEC. 24TH 2009, THE VEHICLE WOULD START BUT NOT MOVE FORWARD. POSSIBLE FUEL SHUT OFF DUE TO HARNESS LOCK FAILURE. WHEN I TOOK IT TO THE GMC DEALER IN WATSONVILLE CALIF. THEY ADVISED ME THAT THIS ITEM WAS NO LONGER UNDER WARRANTY. MY QUESTION IF THE RECALL ITEM HAS FAILED AGAIN WHY ISN'T THE DEALER OR GM RESPONSIBLE FOR REPLACEMENT AT NO COST TO THE CUSTOMER? I WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS ONLY FOR THE FIRST 12,000 MILES OR 12 MONTHS. SEEMS ODD THAT THIS PART THAT WAS REPLACED IN 2006 HAS ALREADY FAILED WHEN THE CAR HAS HAD ONLY 7,000 MILES APPROX. PUT ON THE VEHICLE SINCE THE RECALL WORK WAS COMPLETED. THE TOTAL MILES FOR THIS VEHICLE IS ONLY 15,900 MILES. HAS THERE BEEN ANY REPORTS THAT THE REPLACEMENT PART WAS DEFECTIVE AS WELL? *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 750315 |
| ODI Number | 10297453 |
| Date Filed | December 29, 2009 |
| Failure Date | December 24, 2009 |
| VIN | 1G1YY22G335 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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